On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> As we all know, the live CD has grown quite a bit since the 2008.05 >> release. I've spent some time analyzing how we're using the space and >> where the growth between build 86 and build 94 occurred, and worked up >> some recommendations. >> >> The analysis data is now posted at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_space/ >> >> The recommendations are posted at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/cd_recommendations/ >> >> I would especially appreciate feedback from the desktop, X, and l10n >> teams on the recommendations. We'll work up an actual plan once we've >> discussed a bit. > > >From the X perspective, dropping the screensaver hacks certainly makes sense > - they won't even be active in the default configuration, and are pure eye > candy. > > The fontconfig-docs are mostly developer documentation, so if we're not having > a full developer environment on the LiveCD, it doesn't make much sense to have > them either. (The only ones I'd think are really useful to the end-user > are the fonts.conf and fc-* utility man pages.) > > For FSWxorg-fonts, all the PCF bitmap fonts are currently shipped as > *.gz files - we can also ship uncompressed if the LiveCD compression > is better than individually gzip'ed files, or as *.bz2 if minimal size > on the CD is most important. (In Solaris, we ship them uncompressed, > for best speed at runtime, and because the WOS media compresses the > entire cpio archive of the package at once, which gets much better > compression on our uncompressed files than gzip of each individual > file can get - and for many C locale fonts, the difference between a > 16kb uncompressed font and a 12kb gzipped font is not any real disk > space - for Asian fonts the difference can be huge though). > Unfortunately, the *bz2 support is currently not working in Xorg, but > I'm working on fixing that.
The segment by segment compression in Lofi is inferior to stream compression of whole files. Of course this changes a bit if we are using LZMA. However even in that case LZMA can further reduce *.gz files. So leaving the *.gz PCF files as is will be better. Regards, Moinak. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
